Diane Farmer Email and Phone Number

Reconciling invoices with purchase orders, tracking inventory in 12 different DC's and multiple stores.Contacting vendors with inventory discrepancies, pricing discrepancies and coordinating returns.

• Buyer for all raw materials for production, i.e. boxes, steel, shells, base plates, rings, end caps, center cores etc.• Obtained quotes from suppliers, working with engineering on standards and specifications for materials.• Team member on the 3PL decision team• Review, update and aggressively pursue cost savings with current vendors and potential vendors• Developed Vendor Performance Review Scorecard, saw a 10% improvement after a quarter for acknowledgments and on time deliveries• Negotiate and coordinate the sale or use of out of spec materials either with the supplier or a recycling company• Backup scheduler for the production lines and support production areas• Work with Quality to ensure vendor compliance with specifications and standards• Supervise two warehouses, one on site and one off site; coordinate with receiving personnel to ensure timeliness of delivery to the production lines• Supervise three full time employees and two part time employees • Make vendor visits, negotiate pricing and enforce specifications with current vendors• Coordinate, participate and investigate weekly cycle counts of raw and finished products• Liaison between sales, production and shipping for lead times and production for sales orders• Prepare quarterly inventory turn reports and obsolete materials • Prepare and report weekly parts delivered to production from receiving warehouses, number of incoming purchase orders and cycle count variances on weekly SQDC board• Green belt certified in Six Sigma• Coordinated and led a Kiazen event for both receiving warehouses• Evaluate and conduct performance reviews on employees• Establishing a Kanban for top vendors for timely deliveries

• Plan and schedule operations for the manufacturing of retail products, bulk oils, and creamer• Ordered inbound oil and ingredients needed to meet production goals and customer orders• Purchased manufacturing supplies, i.e. bottles, boxes, drums, totes, to ensure efficient production• Obtained quotes from oil suppliers, ingredient and packaging vendors, approved and accepted quotes for under $1000, made recommendations to plant manger and corporate• Assisted corporate with contract negotiations with local suppliers• Assisted the QC department on quality of oil—coordinated returns or resale of out of spec oils• Negotiated and coordinated the sale or use of out of spec oil, waste oil with local companies• Determine the production schedule of oils based on delivery dates and customer demand• Liaison between Corporate CSR’s, customers, carriers and suppliers• Produced daily short reports, dispatches, scheduling reports as well as tracked vendors for quality and on time delivery for weekly, monthly and quarterly scorecard reviews.• Made recommendations to corporate when suppliers were not meeting expectations, suggested other vendors with better service and pricing standards• Provided cost saving measures through detailed planning. Reduced waste production by 15% in 6 months• Coordinated with warehouse to ensure product availability, timeliness in releasing product and availability of base supplies

• Promoted to supervisor after three months• Supervised 10-15 full time employees and temps. Conducted all performance reviews and discipline reviews• Acting manager of the dept from 2/05, reduced pending invoices from 10 million dollars to 1.4 million dollars in less than 90days• Prepared and reviewed quality reports, monthly expenses reports, coordinated and controlled the documentation for carrier’s additional charges (i.e. detention, tolls etc) track costs and invoices, generated daily 820’s to John Deere (avg 1.2 million)• Liaison between John Deere, carriers and staff Presented solutions to issues to John Deere and their carriers • Trained employees on the Freight Pay System, monitor automatic approval ratings of invoices, and communicated all new contract and rate changes• Assisted with the assimilation of rates into the Freight Pay System of 115 different contracted trucking firms of John Deere• Trained 110 trucking personnel on the Freight Pay System-a web based invoicing system• Prepared and reviewed quality reports, monthly expense reports, coordinated and controlled and documentation for carrier’s additional charges (i.e. detention, tolls etc), track costs and invoices, generated daily 820’s to John Deere (avg 1.2 million)• Monitor and appraised John Deere of contract violations by the carriers